Comment Are you americans beware that... (Score 2) 329
..the whole concept of dating is absolutely alien to any other culture than yours?
Amercan dating is a whole concept of behaviour, strictly defined and hardly understandable for people from other countries. And its one thing american movies/pop culture didnt inject into other cultures.
I am not talking about dating as a form of flirtation, but of dating as a set of rules. In my country (Germany) theres just no defined approach to the other gender, and its never clear when a date is a "date" and its not common knowledge what to do/think if it is - contrary to the dating rules of what to on the first the second and the third date (as far as it was explained to me)...
"to ask someone out for a date" or "Im dating ..." is so full of cultural background and knowledge that an european just cant understand it for some time because there are so many things that go without saying/that you are oblieged to know and to do if you dont want to alienate your "date".
Amercan dating is a whole concept of behaviour, strictly defined and hardly understandable for people from other countries. And its one thing american movies/pop culture didnt inject into other cultures.
I am not talking about dating as a form of flirtation, but of dating as a set of rules. In my country (Germany) theres just no defined approach to the other gender, and its never clear when a date is a "date" and its not common knowledge what to do/think if it is - contrary to the dating rules of what to on the first the second and the third date (as far as it was explained to me)...
"to ask someone out for a date" or "Im dating
